• 05May

    GPS Navigation has major flaws

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    In choppy, pre-recorded voice:

    “Caution, Bullfight, Ahead, In, Five, Hundred! Feet”

    When you watch car commercials today, one feature they’re likely to show off is the option for GPS navigation. More and more cars today have them available. I’ll admit, I think they’re really cool. This is mostly because when I’m in a car, I have the sense of direction of a dead squirrel.

    But I digress; the purpose of this post was about this blog post from slashdot:

    “Many GPS devices today will try to scan the FM bands for traffic advisories in the area to display on their screens. The signals, however, are neither authenticated nor encrypted, and one can — with commonly available electronics — construct a device to broadcast bogus advisories. Possible codes range from “bullfight ahead” to “terrorist attack”

    Not too much to say on this. I just think the possibilities could be pretty funny.

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    Posted by Chris @ 12:21 pm

One Response

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  • Zack Says:
    May 6th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    anyone with the technological know-how to do something like that should probably be recruited by the people making GPS devices.

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